Romeo Eleven (2011)

Original title

Roméo Onze

Directed by

Ivan Grbovic

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 20-year-old man with a physical disability in Montreal's Lebanese Christian community gets a date with a woman he met online. He must confront his own insecurities about his body and his place in the world.

tenderintrospectiveawkwarddelicateslow-burnsinceregroundedemotionally raw

What happens

Romeo Eleven (French: Roméo Onze) is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed by Ivan Grbovic, and written by Grbovic and Sara Mishara. Set in Montreal's Lebanese Christian community, the film is a coming-of-age story about a physically handicapped 20-year-old man who must face his insecurities about his disability when he is invited out on a date by a woman he has been chatting with on the internet. The film had its theatrical premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2011, and its Canadian premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Café de Flore (2011)
• Trash (2011)
• Nuit 1 (2011)
• Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
• Coteau Rouge (2011)
• Foreverland (2011)
• Textuality (2011)
• Laurentia (2011)